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’. _-,), -4- VA, Ebenezer was sentenced to be hanged for horse-stealing. His _ sister, Nancy, was permitted to wait on him until the day of his execution by Samuel Parke. A day before the execution, Nancy brought him a bar of iron, and induced Mrs. Parks to take the prisoner a cup of tea. On the woman entering the cell, Ebenezer struck her with this iron, cutting a deep gash in her head and leaving her insensible. As soon as he emer- ged from the jail he found two friends well mounted, with a third horse ready for the prisoner. On going some distance they left their horses in the bush and his in a hay-mow until the search Wes given up, when he managed to leave the country. White wife No. 2, marilla Gregory, had two childrenâ€"~Gregory . and Lovina. Gregory was a horse-thief. In 1849 he set out on a journey to California. Qn the route he, it is alleged, killed a squaw, and the Indians, looking for justice, deman- ded the murderer, the penalty for refusal being the destruction of the whole party. The little band of argonauts did not wish to be thus done away witn, and gave up Gregory, who was skinned alive by the maddened savages. Nelson Beaver remembers Greâ€" gory Allen going to California, and in 1852 saw the man who buried him, eighty miles west of Salt Lake. The Chief denies that it was Allen who was skinned alive, but asserts that one man of the party met with such a fate. Lovina was the younâ€" gest member of the whole Allen family. Nothing was said against her character, and so she was married to a tanner named Taylor, who operated Cyrenus Hall's tannery at Byron,